Turn a physical space into facts you can search — without the raw data ever leaving it.
Physics builds capture pipelines that watch a real place, run the models at the edge, and keep a private, searchable record of what's there and what changed — while the footage and sensor data stay on your own hardware. It's running live in the field right now.
Four layers, one discipline.
I work end-to-end — from the camera on the wall to the agent answering a question about it — with data governance and network security holding it together.
Sensing that thinks on-site
Cameras, mics, phones and field nodes running models at the edge — vision (Qwen2.5-VL, V-JEPA2, YOLO) and speech (Parakeet) on Pis, Jetsons and micro-nodes. The device decides what matters, so only the facts travel.
A private record of your world
Searchable, shareable facts in a vector store you control. Raw footage stays on your hardware; the store holds the meaning — queryable, portable, and yours. You decide who sees which facts.
Ask your environment questions
LLM agents (Claude) reach the store through typed tools — answering, predicting and scoping from the facts alone. Third parties get scoped, agreed access to answers, never the raw.
Off-site, but logically yours
A private overlay mesh (no open ports, no public internet), consent-based access, and continuous monitoring. Even a rented server becomes a node on your own network.
Gizza Gawk
The whole pipeline, doing a real job. A homeowner films a problem on their phone — a leak, a crack, a dodgy bit — and gets back a plain-English read on what it is, how big a deal it is, and which trades they actually need. No site visit, and their video never leaves the private store.
It's the same four layers above, shipped and working — not a slide deck.
Visit gawk.co.nz →Raw data stays put. Only the facts move.
The design principle behind every build: capture and compute happen on your hardware, the meaning lives in a store you own, and only agreed facts ever cross a boundary.
At the edge
Cameras, mics & phones on your site
To meaning
Models turn frames into facts on-device
Privately
A vector store you own and control
With agents
Ask questions; get answers & predictions
By consent
Scoped facts to whoever you agree
Got a space that should be legible?
Physics is the practice of David, an engineer working across edge AI, data governance and network security. If you've got a place, a fleet or a process you'd like to make searchable — without handing over the raw — let's talk.
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